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Some schools forget about Veterans Day

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My daughter is in the third grade in the Columbus City School District. I ask her every day when
she comes from school what she learned, and Monday was no exception.

Operating under a very flawed belief that her school did the right thing that day, I asked her
what she learned about Veterans Day. “Veterans Day? We didn’t talk about Veterans Day.” I refused
to believe her school completely ignored Veterans Day.

It was very convenient for me that parent-teacher conferences were being held the following day.
The first question I asked the teacher was if she or the school did anything to educate the kids
about Veterans Day. The answer I received was “no.”

“Why? Were you told not to do anything?”

“No, we just didn’t.”

There apparently was no directive from the district or the principal of the school preventing
the teachers from educating the students about Veterans Day. In what I can only describe as
offensive, distasteful and horribly insulting, there was also nothing handed down mandating the
schools do something for Veterans Day, either.

Compare this wholly apathetic attitude with other schools in other districts that went so far as
to hold assemblies for their students. The principal and teachers of my daughter’s school, left to
their own devices, failed to see the importance of the meaning of Veterans Day and chose to
completely ignore the day.

This is the education our children are receiving. Or, more to the point, the education they are
not receiving. I am a veteran, but it is as a citizen of this country that I find it completely
despicable and repulsive that the school would act in such a way.

I would have thought at least one teacher in my daughter’s school would have felt the same way
and would have the integrity and love for this country to suggest doing the right thing. That thing
would have been to educate the students about Veterans Day.